lyric /lirˈ/ adjective

1. (of poems or their authors) expressing individual or private emotions
2. (of a singing voice) having a light quality
3. Relating to the lyre
4. Intended or suitable to be sung, orig to the lyre

1. A lyric poem
2. A song
3. (in pl) the words of a popular song
4. A composer of lyric poetry (obsolete)

lyrical /lirˈ/ adjective

1. Lyric
2. Song-like
3. Expressive or imaginative
4. Effusive

lyrˈically adverb

lyricism /lirˈi-sizm/ noun

1. A lyrical expression
2. Lyrical quality

lyrˈicist noun

1. The writer of the words of a song, musical, opera, etc
2. A lyric poet

lyrˈicon noun

An electronic wind instrument like a large flute (but played like a clarinet), used with a synthesizer

lyriform /līˈ/ adjective

Shaped like a lyre

lyrˈism /līrˈ or lirˈ/ noun

1. Lyricism
2. Singing

lyrist /līrˈ or lirˈ/ noun

1. A player on the lyre or harp
2. /lirˈ/ a lyric poet

lyˈra-viˈol or lyra viol noun

An obsolete instrument like a viola da gamba adapted for playing from lute tablature

lyreˈbird noun

Either of two Australian passerine ground-dwelling birds of the genus Menura about the size of a pheasant, the tail feathers of the male arranged, in display, in the form of a lyre

lyre guitar noun

A form of lyre with a fingerboard, at its greatest popularity in the late 18c and early 19c

lyriform organs plural noun (zoology)

Patches of well-innervated chitin on the legs and other parts of spiders, believed to act as mechanoreceptors

wax lyrical

To become increasingly expressive or effusive in praise of something